Changes to its submission acceptance policy for new and existing software titles have been announced by QArchive.org. A safer environment for their valued visitors and a better, higher quality marketplace for software developers distributing their products through our online channels will be facilitated by the changes. Along with manual approval for every new and existing software title submitted to QArchive, the changes include numerous automatic filters such as anti-virus and spyware checks.
QArchive, in order to facilitate a safer download environment, encourages publishers and owners of software download archives to use the filtered QArchive PAD Database that only contains approved titles. Only select products are included by the new PAD repository, and guarantees that there are no virus- or spyware-infected downloads. Manual reviewing of each submission ensures that there are no illegal, inappropriate or fake products.
The new design of QArchive.org underlines the importance of the steps we take to make QArchive a better and safer place. QArchive ensures, with extensive automatic and manual analysis performed to every submission, new and existing, that only top-quality products remain in their database. While the advanced Bayes analysis of code, text descriptions and originator's Web site help get rid of illegal and inappropriate products, automatic anti-virus and anti-spyware checks ensure the absence of known malicious code in the products their are offering for download.
Helping QArchive to get rid of malware that slips through automatic checks, each product, as a final quality assurance check, is reviewed by the team of professional moderators. If QArchive filters a product by mistake, its developer can always submit an appeal request that will be handled by one of the appointed moderators.
QArchive has currently processed 44,800 unique submissions. Nearly 1,500 (3%) of them were infected with viruses or spyware, over 32,000 (73%) were considered inappropriate for various reasons, and only about 10,800 (24%) were published on QArchive.
QArchive, to promote a safer download environment all over the Web, is about to offer its entire filtered database of PAD files to every publisher or developer of software download archives. QArchive PAD repository will be available to everyone at no charge.
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